Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding

Venetian Snares | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 3, 2004)
• Original Release Date: 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Planet Mu
• ASIN: B0001Z64XQ
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #367,068 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars my favorite venetian snares CD!, May 17, 2005

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Anthony Dicapua - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding (Audio CD)

this CD is it for me, i love everyting by venetian snares, but i have to say that this is favorite, it doesnt even sound like someone is composing it, it just sounds like it is happening on its own, that it just exists. to the closet miriah carey fan who gave it one star, why dont you get a synth and put a 2 year old in front and see what you get, better yet, if it is so rnadom, why dont you just pound on keys and see if it sounds anything like this. the mathematics behind aarons work are very complex, it all just works together even though it may seem a little random, you find it is not random at all, it is just more complex the 4/4 beats most are used to, it is a shame you are missing the beauty and the genius of his work.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I can't even begin to say how important his album is..., September 25, 2004

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C. Sherwood "turbosnob" (i am the ocean) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding (Audio CD)

but I'll try.

This is the most personal, introspective work Arron Funk has ever done, and it is beautiful beyond words.

First of all, if your are expecting "look at me, i'm a badass" hardcore noise you won't find it here. The breakcore fanatics will not be satisfied by the energy of this album. This album is actually closer in sound to the work of "autechre" than "fanny," but it has what their albums have always lacked: PURE. MUSICAL. GENIUS. This isn't just music by numbers.

Here you will find the enveloping use of texture that made the earlier Venetian Snares albums so damned spooky that they actually broke through your cool and affeted you on a personal level. However, this time, the soundscapes are used to a much more meaningful effect than fear or discomfort. Still, this isn't some pansy, tweet tweet music. There is chaos and urgency in every song, and, while more e-music fans might dig this release, it would take a very special kind of grandma to appreciate these songs.

Still, this is the point in his career where the professors and bonk-fest snobs will begin to really examine Aaron's work beyond it's status as a "pop music peculiarity." There may even be chapters in college text books a few years from now dealing with "the use of arrythmic hardcore to lend aspects of horror to a composition." This album is "mature" while still remaining playful. It borrows the sound of his contemporaries more than any other album he has produced, but it still manages to push boundries. Basically, he's decided it was time to dominate yet another realm of electronic music, and that's exactly what he did. It's freaking fabulous. Venetian Snares just refuses to get tired. In the past, his music could have been described as "diversely violent," but his latest releases show him to be a bit closer to "violently diverse."

Personally, I don't care just so long as it stays this good.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Huge Spiraling Metallic Structures, October 10, 2004

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dronecaster (Baton Rouge, LA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding (Audio CD)

That's the initial impression you'll get from listening to this recording from Aaron Funk, otherwise known as Venetian Snares, a project which picks up on the innovations of experimental techno artists/groups like Aphex Twin, Autechre, and Sqaurepusher and combines them in hitherto underheard ways. The 14 tracks on "Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding" goes into the same areas of 'microscopic' sound structure that was brilliantly achieved on Autechre's "Confield" and to a lesser extent Squarepusher's "Go Plastic". But beyond the influences Funk has an original voice in the digital sound minefield...while sounding like (at the risk of bringing up a tired old phrase) "sonic terrorism", Funk brings a much more melodic underpinning in his tracks that is lacking in the work of his predecessors/contemporaries, even though those melodies are at best faintly heard behind the cathartic torrent of digital beats Funk stirs up. Like "Confield", "Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding" is the music that sentient robots will be dancing (or at least bobbing their heads to) in the near to far future, a true cutting edge release of rhythmic electronica and one of 2004's very best in its field.